600. TELEGRAM TO G. K. ORJONIKIDZE^[1]

Written on June 3, 1920 · First published in 1942 in Lenin Miscellany XXXIV. Printed from the original. · page 381

Orjonikidze
Revolutionary Military Council of the Caucasian Front

I have received your fretful letter. You are wrong to regard the inquiry I am obliged to make as distrust. I hope you will have dropped this misplaced aggrieved tone by the time we meet.

Lenin

Notes

[1] The margin of the typewritten copy of this telegram in the Central Party Archives of the Institute of Marxism-Leninism contains a note by Orjonikidze: “The telegram was received by me in the summer of 1920. Orjonikidze.” What Lenin’s inquiry referred to has not been established.